Name: ooR10006 Date: 05/31/2000


While GC is enqueueing significantly large number of Soft or Weak or Phantom
references each registered with own queue and some references are already
enqueued, i.e. SoftRef.isEnqueued() returns true, method poll() invoked for
corresponding queues sometimes returns null instead of reference to
Soft or Weak or PhantomReference object enqueued.
Method remove() or remove(long) used instead of poll() returns correct
reference.
Decreasing number of created Soft references and queues makes the test pass.
The test fails with HotSpot and jdk1.3fcsC and jdk1.4.0beta-b11 on Solaris,
but passes with classic VM jdk1.2.2, jdk1.3fcsC and jdk1.4.0beta-b11 on Solaris.

see the following test and run results:
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import java.lang.ref.*;

public class SoftReferenceTest {
  public static final int QUEUE_NUM = 100000;

  public static void main(String args[]) {
        int i = 0;
        ReferenceQueue q[] = new ReferenceQueue[QUEUE_NUM];
        SoftReference r[] = new SoftReference[QUEUE_NUM];
Object obj = new Object();

        //create QUEUE_NUM SoftRefs each with own
        //queue to one object
        for (i = 0; i < QUEUE_NUM; ++i){
            q[i] = new ReferenceQueue();
            r[i] = new SoftReference(obj, q[i]);
        }
        obj = null;
        System.gc();
        for (i=0; i < QUEUE_NUM; ++i){
            if(r[i].isEnqueued() == true){
if (q[i].poll() == null){
System.out.println("FAILED");
return; // FAILED
}
            }
        }
        System.out.println("PASSED");
        return; // PASSED
  }
}

% jdk1.3.0fcsC/solaris/bin/java -classic SoftReferenceTest
PASSED
% jdk1.2.2/solaris/bin/java SoftReferenceTest
PASSED
% jdk1.4.0beta-b11/solaris/bin/java SoftReferenceTest
FAILED
% jdk1.3.0fcsC/solaris/bin/java SoftReferenceTest
FAILED
%


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